Shwayze - The Nostalgia Tour
About This Event
Shwayze brings The Nostalgia Tour to Brooklyn Bowl, foregrounding his laid‑back, melodic take on hip‑hop and R&B from early tracks such as "Buzzin'" and "Corona and Lime." The bill features Asher Roth—whose breakout single "I Love College" helped define a campus‑oriented lane of late‑2000s hip‑hop—and Chiddy Bang, whose sample‑led work and conversational delivery keep the night song‑forward and direct.
About Nostalgia Tour
The Nostalgia Tour stops at Brooklyn Paramount with Fetty Wap, whose melodic balance of hip-hop and R&B helped define mid-2010s radio rap. He broke through with hook-first singles including “Trap Queen,” “679,” and “My Way,” followed by a No. 1 debut album in 2015. The set favors direct vocal delivery over stage spectacle, built around repetition and sing-along structure. In New York, where rap’s local histories are often measured against new waves, the show plays like a time capsule of that streaming-era crossover moment.
About the Artists
Shwayze
Shwayze is an American rapper working at the intersection of hip-hop and R&B, known for a run of studio albums and singles dating back to his 2008 debut. Early releases produced tracks like “Buzzin’” and “Corona and Lime,” followed by the 2009 album *Let It Beat*, helping define a laid-back, melodic lane within pop-leaning rap.
Chiddy Bang
Chidera Anamege performs as Chiddy Bang, a Philadelphia rapper who first emerged at Drexel University as one half of the duo with producer Noah “Xaphoon Jones” Beresin. After Beresin stepped back in 2013 to focus on production, Anamege continued as a solo artist, keeping the project’s hybrid of hip-hop and alternative-leaning sample work.
Asher Roth
Asher Roth is a Pennsylvania-raised rapper whose early breakout single “I Love College” landed on the Billboard Hot 100 and helped define a campus-oriented lane of late-2000s hip-hop. His work sits between Hip-Hop and R&B, leaning on conversational delivery and plainspoken storytelling.